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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
OUR LEADING FARM PRODUCTS
THEIR VALUE.

In an address before the last
annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, Prof: Wiley, chemist Of the
Department of Agriculture, gave the
following statement of the leading
agricultural products Of the country,
taking an average Of several years,
the said statement being based upon
the figures furnished him by Hon. j.
r. Dodge, statistician for the depart
ment. 1t will be understood that
the values Of several of the products,
as grain, hay, &c, are repeated in
part in the products of beef, pork,
mutton, poultry, etc. The statement
is as follows:
Indian corn, ,90O,OOO,OOO
bushels. 1927 GOO, 900
Wheat, 100000, 900 bushels. 40, $1,000
Dairy (milk, butter and
cheese). &c., 900
Hay, 100000 tons........... 800, 600
Beef, veal (dressed) 4,OO0,-
100000 pounds............ $50, OOO,O 900
Pork (dressed) 5000, 100000
Observation-Disclosures. $50, 900, 900
Cotton, 3,l2O,OOO,OOO pounds $50, 900
Poultry products (estimated) 200, 100000
Oats, 600, 100000 bushels.... 6 ,OOO,OOO
Potatoes, 200, 100000 bushels 100, OOO,O 900
Fruits 1OO,OOO,OOO
Vegetables..........".... 5O,OOO,OOO
Wool, 3OO,OOO,OOO pounds. 45,OOO,OOO
Mutton, 5OO,OOO,OOO pounds. As, 900
Tobacco, 4S3, OOO, OOOpounds. 42,OOO,OOO
Barley, 6O,OOO,OOO bushel..... 33,6OO,OOO
Rye, 25,OOO,OOO bushels...... 100000 900
Sugar, 25O,OOO,OOO pounds. l2,5OO,OOO
Molasses (syrup) 100000
gallons .::.::....... 11,25o,OOo
Buckwheat, 100000
bushels. 100000
Rice, 100000 pounds.:..... 100000
Honey, 100000 pounds. 100000
Beeswax, 100000 pounds. $4,000
Other soil products, seeds,
wines, etc.......... 4Os, 945, 900
So, 1894, 400, 900
Making a sufficient allowance for
values that are repeated as above
stated, the total of these products
will not fall below $500, 600, 900 per
annum.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02

and sprinkling between these layers
a little of the mixed seasoning.
Then over all pour a half a gallon Of
white wine vinegar, and after stand
ing twenty-four hours the ketchup
may be strained and bottled for
use. The vinegar should be boiled
before using, and when poured over
the lemons should be hot.
LEMON PUDDING.
Three eggs, one scant cup Of sugar,
two liberal tablespoontuls of corn
starch, n lemon, juice and rind,
two cups Of milk, n heaping tea
spoonful Of butter. Scald the milk,
and stir in the corn-starch wet up
in four teaspoonfuls of cold water.
Cook-stirring all the time-until it
thickens we'll add the butter, and
set aside until perfectly cold. Then
beat the eggs light, add the sugar,
the lemon juice and grated peel, and
whip in, a greatspoontul at a time,
the stitfened corn-starch milk. Bake
in a buttered dish, and eat cold.
POTATO STEAK.
Take one pound of large and ten
der steak, free it from all bone and
gristIe and scatter over it bits OF
butter, salt and pepper, a little sage
and finely chopped onions, over
which a little boiling tarragon or
common vinegar has been poured ;
over that spread a thick cushion of
mashed potatoes, we'll seasoned with
salt, fresh butter and milk. Roll
the steak very tightly, with the
potatoes inside, fasten with strong
tape and put it into a baking pan
with large cuptul of beeftea stock
or gravy, into which has been placed
half a wineglass Of port wine. Serve
with a rim of mashed potatoes and
watercress as Il garnish.
APPLE CHARLOTTE.
This apple charlotte is easily made
and is very good. Peel, quarter and
core six apples; put them in a pan
with two tablespoontuls Of water, a
little stick of cinnamon and stew
until done add three or four ounces
of sugar and mix gently, taking care
not to mash the apples, and let them
cool butter a mould well and line
the bottom and sides with strips Of
stale bread an inch wide and a
quarter of an inch thick fill half
full with some of the apples, put
a thin layer of any kind Of preserves
or jam on the apples, then put on
the rest of the apples, with
strips of stale bread and bake twenty
minutes in a hot oven turn over on
a dish, remove the mould and serve
hot.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
A MOVING SOUTH.

Freight and Passenger Train runs De
tween Fayetteville and Bennettsvllle OH
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Freight and Passenger Train runs De
tween Fayetteville and Greensboro lueS'
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, ana pe,
tween Greensboro and Fayetteville Mon'
days, Wednesdays and Fridays. ILL,
Passenger and Mail Train runs o"n'
except Sundays. ,,n
The north bound Passenger ana MA,
Train makes close connection at MaA'o"
with Carolina Central to Charlotte.
w. E. KYLE,
General Passenger A9e"'
j. w. FRY,
General Superintendent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02

The long iron bridge at Bis
marck, Oak, contracts and expands
eleven inches by the heat and cold.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
Aousehold.
CITRON CAKE.

CITRON CAKE.
One-half pound Of butter, one-half
pound sugar, one pound flour, four
eggs, one-halt pound citron.
ROLL CAKE.
Three eggs, one teaspoontul Of
sugar, one teacupful of flour; beat
yolks till light and then add the
sugar then add the whites, beaten
stiff, and lastly stir in the -four
gradually bake in a long, shallow,
creased pan turn out on a damp
towel on the bread board and cover
the top with any kind Of jelly or
thin layer of marmalade and roll up
while warm. Slice as needed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-02
Cape Fea. 3 ?sikis Valley Railway e.
Condensed Schedule No. -,
~EAVERVILLE, \. c.

effect 100 p. m, Sunday, Feb 20, 1871
TRAINS MOVING NORTH.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04
FUR FASHIONS FOR MEN.
Cincinnati Inquirer.

One sees fur-trimmed coats every
where. Gamblers are much given
to them, and so are deacons who do
business on Third street.
Prosperous saloon keepers are
equally fond of them.
Every man who ever had any
thing to do with sports-every horse
man, or billiard man, or baseball
man-seems to think q fur-trimmed
overcoat indispensable to his win
ter's existence.
Perhaps the most gorgeous fur
trimmed coat in the country is the
one worn by Mr.. Cleveland's late
Minister to Persia. 1t is radiant
with fur of various tints, and the
furrier who designed it did not for
get to put in neat bit of bright
color.
Ii fur is good thing to wear
upon the collar and shoulder of an
overcoat and round the arms just
above the wrists, why is it not a
good thing to wear elsewhere?
If the extremitles are to be pro-
tected, why not protect them all? If
the overcoat may be so richly adorn-
ed with circlets of fur, more or less
expensive, why not other garments?
This view of the matter will sure
ly occur TO some leading tailor, and
next season, il not this, there is a
strong probability that fur-trimmed
trousers will be seen in profusion.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04
each other as they rose, so that the
greatest breadth was below the wa
ter line. the least on the upper deck.

each other as they rose, so that the
greatest breadth was below the wa
ter line, the least on the upper deck.
Round bowed and square-sterned,
steering badly and commonly over
loaded with cargo, the rate of pro-
gression was, under the most favor
able circumstances, not more than
twenty-five leagues day. There
fore, usually about fifteen days were
required for the last and most peril
GUS stage of the homeward voyage,
that from Azores, distant only eight
hundred miles from the western
coast of Portugal. The active life
of Spanish ship was short, even IL
she escaped the perils Of weather
and warfare, no vessel being consid-
cred fit for further ocean service af-
ter, at the most, four voyages to and
from America. This was partly
due to no adequate method Of
sheathlng being known by which
the sides under water could be pro-
tected from the attacks of worms,
and in part to radical defects in
planning and construction. A gal
leon of four hundred tons burden,
the average size, would be allowed
a keel length of sixty feet, little
more than that given to an English
ship of only one hundred and fifty
tons. The length of the upper deck
being some ninety feet. with huge
projecting bow timbers in addition,
the effect of the relatively immense
superstructure was to cause the ves-
sci to pitch and strain to an extent
which frequently opened the seams,
the keel being too short to ride on
two or more waves at once and so
lessen the abruptness of her rise and
fall. The rule was that the foremast
should have the same length as the
keel, and the mainmast that Of the
upper deck, the mizzenmast and
bowsprit being each sixty feet long.
On each mast were two or three
yards, and over the lower ones were
large basket-shaped "tops" forty or
fifty feet in circumference, which in
action were filled with musketeers.
The traveller in the East who meets
with some Of the Spanish-built
steamers trading to the Philippines
may still see in the heavy bows, the
massive tops and the old fashioned
window fitted ports curious survi.
val of some of the features of the
ancient galleon.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04
ORNAMENTS OF ALGERIAN
WOMEN.
Brooklyn Magazine.

The dress of the Algerian woman
hangs very loosely about the armes,
which are always bare. Sometimes
q red band, which passes in loop
over each shoulder and crosses at
the back, where it is ornamented
with little red tassels, keeps the
dress closer to the figure. When the
arms are raised, the loose drapery
hanging through the loops has much
the appearance of the full sleeve Of
the italian peasant. Shoulderpins
are very much worn and are made
Of silver, often enriched with coral
and enamels, resembling an Irish
brooch. These pins are sometimes
connected with chain, to the centre
of which is suspended little metal
box, enamelled, and containing scent.
On the head is worn q little peaked
bonnet, like the French cap Of liber-
ty. It is made by doubling in hall,
lengthwise, a broad silk band, and
sewing up one side. It is kept in
its place by q second kerchief,
bound round and knotted behind,
Many women allow their hair to
wave free, or confine it simply with
q fillet. A frequent ornament il a
round silver brooch with an opening
in the centre crossed by a pin.
Bosses of coral, as well as knobs OF
silver, which latter have very pearl
like effect, are dotted about It.
They are effective pieces Of jewclry,
and with the sun shining on them
glisten like moons. They are not
adopted till q woman becomes q
mother. On the birth Of girl, the
brooch is worn between the breasts;
on the birth Of boy, it is raised,
and CLEANS above the forehead.
When 8 wife is disobeidient, and IL
beaten by her husband, the brooch
10 often undone BY the woman and
dashed to the ground at his feet.
Their 10 another head ornament
handsomsr than this. II consists
Of . central silver brooch over the
forehead, and side brooches above
the temples, enriched in the same
STYLE and with rows Of silver
cleaning semisphcses completely
encircling the bead. and forms =
glittering tiara At for : princess.
Necklaces are made Of beads and
'corat md also Of cloves and swees-
smelling paste.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04
MAIDS WITHOUT A MAN.
"How to be Happy, Though Single" Dis
cussed with Good Humor.
cassoll's Magazine for February.

Cassell's Magazine for February.
We lately wrote book which has
been most favorahly received called
''How to be Happy, Though Mar.
ried," but we think that quite as
much might be said on the possibil-
ity of single blessedness. Thou
sands of women and even of men can
not marry for one reason or another.
Let them cultivate the contented
state of mind OF that old Scotch lady
who said, II wadna gle my single
life for "a the double anes / ever
saw" People may admire the mar
riage state and yet have their own
good reasons for not entering it.
Under the dying pillow of Washing
ton Irving there was found a lock OF
hair and miniature. Who will say
that man or woman ought to marry
who treasures up such memorials,
and thinks of all that might have
been?
Impecuniosity is another reason
for denying ones self the luxury of
wife. A mistake may, Of course, be
made as to the amount OF money
necessary for marriage. There are
those who could drive coach-and-
two, but, waiting for coach and
four, they are carried into the desc
lation of confirmed bachelorism.
That man, however, is much to be
pitied who leads pure life and
whose II can't afford it, is ne mere
excuse. Let him continue to work
and economize, and before very long
he will have
"a guardian angel DER his life presiding,
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares di-
viding."
And here we must protest against
the foolish and cowardly ridicule
that is sometimes bestowed upon
elderly men and women who, using
the liberty of free country, have
abstaincd from marrying. Certain
ly some of them could give reasons
for spending their lives outside the
temple of Hymen that are far more
honorable than the motives which
induced their foolish detractors to
rush in. Some have never found
their other selves, or circumstances
prevented the junction Of these
selves. And which is more honora-
BILE, life of loneliness or a loveless
marriage? There are others who
have laid down their hopes Of we'd
ded bliss for the sake of accomplish
ing some good work, or for the sake
of father, mother, sister or brother.
In such cases celibacy is an honora-
BILE and may be praiseworty state.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04
SPANISH GALLEONS.
Remarkable Specimens of Peculiar
School of Naval Architecture.
Gentleman's Magazine.

The need of greater passenger ac-
comodation, due to the Development
of American colonization, caused the
Spanish ship-builders to load the
decks with towering forecastle and
poop structures, each containing two
or three tiers of cabins, instead of
meeting the new demand by planning
ships adapted to different conditions
than had before obtained. Thus at
each extremity of the vessel was n
top-heavy fabric having a height
equal to nearly a fourth of her
length, and rendering it dangerous
to carry even the lower canvas ina
fresh breeze; while the sides ''tum-
bled home" as sailors term it, that
is to say. inclined inward toward
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04
LITERARY GENIUS IN YOUTH.



It is almost incredible, when one
looks over the records Of the past, to
find at what early ages some Of the
worlds greatest writer's manifested
literary genius and performed their
most important work. Shakespeare.
for example, wrote "HamIet" when
bat thirty-six years Of age; Thomas
Moore wrote poems at fourteen; Bry
ants "Thanatopsis" was written be
fore the author had reached The age
Of twenty; Henry Kirke White pub
lished . volume Of poems at seven
teen; Fitz-Greene Halleck's best
verses were penned when the author
was between fourteen and seventeen
years Of age; Dickens i,rosured the
"Pickwick Papers before he r,s
twenty-five: Milton wrote p'ctry ft
the age Of ten: BuIwer Lytfon. Bsy
ard Taylor and the poet Keats wr,c
successfully writing for the may;
zines at eighteen; Schiller wrote M
published poem on Moses in his
fourteenth year; Southey began I,
write verses before he was eleven:
poems by Cbaucer and Leigh HUT
we're known and read before the au-
thors were twelve and thirteen years
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04
4 HonELY COUGH MIXTURE.


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/ have not for the past Eve years
found cough among my patients,
no matter what the age or what the
cause whether bronchial. !aryngeal,
pneumonic, tuberoular or nervous.
that did not receive more or iess
benefit from the free administration
u . mixture prepared ~ follows:
Nicholson's or Ho6's malt ext 4 oxs
Whisky (best) ......-.. .....--..6 8 ozs
0lycorfn0 fc. p. @ 0xS
Juice ofsix lemons.
Crunh sugar. r............... 3 0xB
Mix and boil ten minutes.
eig.-From one to two teaspoonfals to
ago, every one, two or three hours, as
may Be indicated.
Prepared in this manner we have
: most excellent expectorant cough
mixture for general domestic use,
containing nothing to disturb d.
gestion. no opium, no ipecac. as do
most Of the stereotyped cough mix
lures in the shops. Tho glycerinc
and malt are both beneficial to nu-
triton, a. we'll ~ expectorant; AMI
the same may be said Of all the CON-
ponent parts Of the combination.
The amount Of the lemon juice may
be increased according to the prefer
ence Of the patient.
I am free to cay that in over 26O
families Of this city where am the
physician this cough mixture is
found indispensable. In my own
family nothing else has ever been
found necessary to control, relieve
and cure the coughs incident
therein.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04

by the misery depicted in her eye.
Young people have little opportunity
to know one another, to discover
hearts and learn dispositions. A
Japanese method prevails. Once
solation-acceptance is certain. So
far as know there is not single
refusal recorded. Ihave often pitied
my friends vino entertained the idea
matrimonial experiment, and filled
them with envy by arecital of Ameri-
can customs. But this proposal is
serious matter, one that would be
difficult to survive.
/ remember severa! years ago,
when / was down in Thuringia,
knowing young officer who had
fallen in love with q beautiful woman
and the eventful day arrived for the
formal siege of her parents. He took
his servant and traversed the back
ways leading to his dulcinea's home.
He was solemnly attired, the white
tie and immaculate shirt front be
traying full-dress costume, though
the "swallow tail'' was absent. But
the servant carried it. The young
man, fearful of the peoples guessing
the intent of his pilgrimage, feared
to don it. Arrived at the shack
gate" however he exchanged his
cuisines jacket" for the regulation
atfair-for otherwise garnitured such
a seige is out of the question. His
lady love sat at the upper window,
when, suddenly catching sight of her
approaching cavalier, she cried; "Oh,
mother. he is in his dress suit. No
further word was necessary; it was
a shibboleth or freemasonry under
stood by all parents, and they pre-
pared for his reception. Down upon
his knees fell my friend, "beauti-
full" contrast to the bare German
floor. The word was hardly spoken;
they welcomed him with open arms
and kissed him with non Judas lips.
''She" was called and the "drcsssuit
affair" fortunately over. But with
the engagement comes the German
fraulein's blissful days. All the
pent up affection, curbel so long by
chaperons, bursts out like the "fires
of Utica" The confidence express
ed in her eye, the convulsive attacks
of hand-prcssing, the W luptuous kis-
ses, are dealt out with a profusion
that one can hardly describe.
The engagement is long and man
kind is convinced-thoroughly
convinced-ere the marriage bell
rings. But it rings at last, and
while its echoes are dying away
farewell is hidden this outward and
disgusting display. Affection has
no direct purpose now-the world
knows they are one. She ceases to
accompany him to the chops ceases
to learn upon his arm; she takes
her place in the kitchen, and serves
hereford and master" She walks
with him from market, laden with"
bags and baskets" while he trudges
along unburdened. She performs
labor enough to age IN amazon.
Home life? There isn't much--a poor,
inadequate substitute. In the even
ing they visit the dance or the
garden and sit for hours ut the
table, listening to the student and
army tales Of their husbands. But
love-true love of man and wife-is
not there. The hearth penates
have taken fight. The former
superabundance of affection was but
superficial, and scandal lightly
steps in. Real happiness and the
deep rythmical music of home they
do not know. "Sweet Home" is new
er sung.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04
ma DUTCH PRISON.
Brooklyn Maeasine.

okVoA1yA 8e
A prison in Holland il rather An
establishment than = Disagreement
to q town. At least such is the dne
penitentiary At Leeuwarden, one OF
the most famous prisons in Holland.
and a model Of its kind. It il COM
pletely built Of stone, bricks. and
iron, consequently fire proof; stair
cases. halls, and workshops are
built with mathematical precision
and in such manner - to permit Of
constant surveillance. The yards
are large and spacious, ell the rooms
whitewashed from top to bottom and
well ventilated, the inner and outer
walls even bearing witness to the
proverbial Dutch cleanliness. The
steps and passages are equally clean,
and you would look in vain for .
soiled spot or grain Of dust. Not .
cracked or tarnished pane Of glass
can be found in the whole building.
Everything is washed, brushed, and
waxed with a care we might we'll EN-
Wy in many Of our American homes.
The dormitories are regularly scrub
bed every day and we'll ventilated.
Their aspect is, however, curious.
Each consists Of q large whitewash-
ed, asphalt-foored room, In the CEN
tire of which is an immense iron-trei-
Used cage, armed on the inside with
spikes. This cage is divided into
over one hundred cells, each separa-
ted by sheet-iron walls; each has its
bed, consisting Of thin mattress, .
pair of sheets Of coarse texture, and
two coverlets. Each night the pris-
oners are locked in these narrow
cells, and thus repose perfectly isolat-
ed from each other. All around the
dormitory run iron water-pipes. with
taps fixed at intervals, at which the
convicts are supposed to perform
their ablutions. Water is general
throughout the whole prison, and is
to be met with on each story. Baths,
which the prisoners are compelled to
make use Of at stated times, are on
the ground floor. The prisoners
have three meals per day. In the
morning, lukewarm milk and water
and a piece of dry bread; at midday,
a soup composed Of vegetables; in
the evening, coffee and brown bread.
Sometimes they are allowed small
quantity OF meat, but more often, ba-
con. The prisoners, however, can
improve upon this food by the money
they earn. They have, in fact q
small interest in their work, four.
sixths Of which is at their disposal,
the balance being very properly cap
italized and handed to them on their
dismissal. Everything is conducted
with military discipline in Dutch
prison, which allows neither of ILL.,
will nor question. The dungeons,
a kind Of subterranean cells, are for
the unrnly, and irons for the mutin-
ous. No conversation is allowed be-
tween the prisoners during hours OF
work. Perfect order prevails as .
rule, and attempts at escape are
events unknown.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04

Choose ever the plainest road; it
always answers best. For the same
reason, choose ever to do and say
what is the most just and the most
direct. This conduct will save q
thousand bushes and a thousand
struggles, and will deliver you from
those secret torments which are the
never-failing attendants of dissimu-
lation.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04

Those who pot plants for winter
blooming are rightly particular to
have rich soil. This, however, 10
apt 10 be full of worms which dam
age the roots. Lime water in full
strength, which is all the lime that
water will hold in solution, will de-
stroy the worms, but be no injury,
but rather benefit, to the plants.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-04

The tramp is like the lily Of the
field. in that he tolls not neither
does he spin. 1t is also reasonably
certain that Solomon in al his glory
was never arrayed like him.